The CYE journal disseminates knowledge and stimulates discussion in support of inclusive and sustainable environments for children and youth everywhere
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Our Mission
The Children, Youth and Environments journal disseminates knowledge and stimulates discussion in support of inclusive and sustainable environments for children and youth everywhere.
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ABOUT
The CYE journal is a peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary, online journal, highlighting the physical environments where children and youth live, learn, work, and play. The journal values the capacity of children and young people to meaningfully participate in the processes that shape their lives and publishes papers from distinct viewpoints, varied approaches, and diverse cultures and regions around the world.
The journal publishes papers in the form of research articles, field reports, and book/media reviews ranging from:
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Quantitative and qualitative empirical research
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Theoretical, methodological, and historical investigations
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Critical literature reviews
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Design analyses
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Post-occupancy evaluations
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Policy studies
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Program assessments
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CYE seeks to strengthen connections between research and practice. Field reports, in particular, which reflect on lessons learned in the field and the challenging realities of practice, are of great interest to our readership. We value this contribution and remain dedicated to publishing a variety of papers. For this reason, a traditional scientometric impact factor, which is based on a count of all items published in an issue, fails to reflect the impact and influence of CYE research specifically. We are continuously considering new and innovative ways to accurately measure the impact of our research articles. We currently use Google Scholar to measure the citation impact.
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CYE has a global community and connects the worlds of research, policy, and practice
HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
CYE appeared as a print journal from 1984-1995 as Children’s Environments Quarterly and Children’s Environments. In 2003, it was revived as an online journal, which now reaches readers in more than 160 countries. Readers and authors include researchers and practitioners in education, childhood studies, geography, sociology, child and youth development, child welfare, child rights advocacy, development studies, architecture, landscape design, urban design and planning. CYE is endorsed by UN-Habitat and guided by a distinguished Editorial Advisory Board.
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Current Issue
The current issue, (Volume 33, no. 1, 2023), includes 7 research articles, 1 historical note, 1 field report and 1 book review spanning across the globe. The research articles cover a wide territory of knowledge and findings: the study of children’s online artwork revealing their value as social agents; the relationship of neighborhood landscape affordances to children’s play during COVID-19; how building design focused on engagement and safety and used primarily to support school practices leaves the teenagers feeling betrayed and untrusted; relationship between school environment, access to social places, and identity development; using model-making workshops to gain primary school children’s perspectives on a ‘good schoolyard’; distribution and use of purpose-built nature play spaces reveal their prevalence in most South Australian schools; and, interesting and rich ways to use urban contexts to spark interest in environmental education. The historical note details the emergence of ‘Hedenesse,’ a self-governing youth village in The Netherlands, after World War II. A field report shares a project focusing on outdoor gardening in early childhood education in the United Arab Emirates. The issue concludes with a review of Earthquake Children: Building Resilience from the Ruins of Tokyo.
OUR TEAM
Victoria Carr
University of Cincinnati
Co-Editor
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Daniela DiGiacomo
University of Kentucky
Field Report Co-editor
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Rhonda Brown
University of Cincinnati
Co-Editor
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Sue Elliott
University of New England, AU
Field Report Co-editor
Claire Underwood
University of Cincinnati
Editorial Assistant
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Leslie Kochanowski
University of Cincinnati
Managing Editor
Özlemnur Ataol
Eindhoven University of Technology
Book + Media Review Co-editor
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Jenny Steffel Johnson
University of Colorado
Copy Editor
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Ann Rossmiller
University of Cincinnati
Special Projects Editor
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Catherine Volpe
University of New England, AU
Book + Media Review Co-editor
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Louise Chawla
University of Colorado, Boulder
Vikhas Mehta
University of Cincinnati
EDITORIAL REVIEW BOARD
Nicole Ardoin
Stanford University, USA
Debra Cushing
Queensland University of Technology, Australia
Enakshi Ganguly
HAQ Centre for Child Rights, India
Lia Karsten
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jill Litt
University of Colorado, USA
Barry Percy-Smith
University of Huddersfield, UK
Julia Torquati
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
Victoria Derr
California State University, Monterey Bay
Robin Moore
North Carolina State University
Mark Blades,
University of Sheffield, UK
Janet Dyment
University of Tasmania, Australia
Jorgelina Hardoy
Int’l Institute for Environment & Development, Argentina
Isami Kinoshita
Chiba University, Japan
Janet Loebach
Cornell University, USA
Edith Phaswana
Thabo Mbeki African Leadership Institute UNISA, South Africa
Nancy Wells
Cornell University, USA
Roger Hart
City University of New York
Fahriye Sancar
University of Colorado, Boulder
Caitlin Cahill
Pratt Institute, USA
Ingunn Fjøtof
University of South-Eastern Norway
Laurie Harmon
Laurie Harmon, University of Wisconsin, USA
Angela Kreutz
Angela Kreutz, Deakin University, Australia
Laura Malinin
Colorado State University, USA
Gina Porter
Lynn Liben
Pennsylvania State University
Willem van Vliet
University of Colorado, Boulder
Sudeshna Chatterjee
Action for Children’s Environments, India
Claire Freeman
University of Otago, New Zealand
Harry Heft
Denison University, USA
Kevin Lalor
Dublin Institute of Technology, Ireland
Lorraine E. Maxwell
Cornell University, USA
Sharon Ergetta Sutton
Parsons The New School, US